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About
A drafter who kept needing parts that didn't exist
I draft civil plans during the day. Somewhere along the way I got tired of hunting for a part that was discontinued, overpriced, or just badly made — so I started measuring things and building my own.
That's the whole channel. A problem, a model, a print, and an honest account of how many tries it took. I'm not a machinist and I don't pretend to be one. Most of what I know came from getting it wrong on camera, which is exactly why the failures stay in the edit.
Everything runs on a small printer in a corner of a room that is not a workshop. That constraint shapes what gets built, and I think it makes the builds more useful, not less.
- BasedSouth Jersey, USA
- Day jobCivil CAD drafting
- ToolsFusion, Civil 3D, a Prusa Mini
- CadenceOne full build a month
- On cameraNever — hands and screen only
How this gets made
The uninteresting truth about production
Capture
A screen recorder and a phone
Physical work is shot overhead, hands only. Digital work is a screen capture with me talking over it. There is no studio.
Editing
An hour, start to upload
Mark the good bits, assemble in order, one voiceover pass, thumbnail, done. The limit is deliberate — it's what makes a monthly build survivable.
AI
Used, and disclosed
I use AI for drafting code, working through problems, and some site copy. When it shows up in a video it's labelled, and you'll usually watch me do it.
Say hello
Got a part that doesn't exist?
Build suggestions are genuinely welcome, especially the ones where you've already looked and nobody sells it.